Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.
Don MaruskaFrom the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: ideas
Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.
Ellie AnnTags: books writing ideas novels
The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until --you know the little tug -- the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.
Virginia WoolfTags: inspiration ideas fishing
If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: conformity nonconformity ideas public-opinion abortion herd-mentality sperm
Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: opinions conformity criticism ideas extraordinary
Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea
Stewart FriedmanWords need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.
SenecaIt is commonly said to my little friend Legion: Read the great writers for style. But I say to him: Read the great dead masters for ideas. Devour them, Fletcherize them, digest, assimilate, make them part of your blood; let the enriched blood visit your brain. The resultant activities will be fairly your own, and the little kinks and convolutions of your brain, which are entirely different from the kinks of any other brain, will furnish you all the style you will ever get.
There are no really fresh ideas; just as there is not any fresh air. Air and ideas are refreshed and refreshing, vitalized and vitalizing; but the thoughts have been thought before and the air has been breathed before.
Tags: style reading writing originality ideas great-books
So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on "for company," or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.
Karen KingstonTags: entertainment ideas thoughts radio tv purpose-of-life
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